"But beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies."
— Edward Moore

January 1, 1970

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"Song xii" (c. 1750s), St. 3; (Poetical Works of Edward Moore, London: Cawthorn, 1797), p. 174.